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Exercise and Infrared Sauna with Ascending Aortic Aneurysm
Aortic Aneurysms | Last Active: Feb 27 10:14pm | Replies (21)Comment receiving replies
My doctor told me no restrictions on exercise and didn’t mention anything about lifting restrictions… I’ve seen an incredibly wide range of restrictions on this blog that people say their doctors have given them. Has anyone seen any written guidelines or research that is from a consensus point of view? I would think that there would be way to categorize restrictions dependent on each patient’s situation (size of aneurysm, age, physical health condition, Blood pressure, etc) Looking at comments across this site it seems that the restrictions are more doctor specific than patient specific. Thoughts?
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Before I had my AAA fixed my cardiologist told me to be aware of exercises where people normally would tend to hold their breaths. High BP is the worst enemy of an aneurysm and holding your breath while lifting weights or doing crunches for example, raise your BP, it can spike significantly for that moment.
Otherwise, since I was already exercising he did not give me a lot more restrictions. After surgery, bench presses had to wait as it takes a while for the sternum to heal. Even today after 4 years since the surgery I still feel a very slight discomfort in my sternum.